A new security report from Verizon claims that cybersecurity breaches worldwide are starting to level off, with the communications vendor forecasting that the next 10 years will see security protection become more effective and widespread as organisations band together to fight cybercrime.

It may not be Tony Soprano on the Web, but a new security report finds that wise-guy hackers have become increasingly organized.
Additionally, they have more targets to hit on the Internet, according to Marc Fossi, a Symantec Security researcher.

The recent Internet Security Threat Report from computer security company Symantec, makers of Norton, revealed that there were more than 3.2 billion cyber attacks in 2009 alone, which equals one attack for every two people in the world.

O'Reilly media founder Tim O'Reilly is "the most powerful voice" in open source, followed by Linux chief architect Linus Torvalds, Google executive Chris Messina, ex-Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz, and Gnome and Mono founder Miguel de Icaza, according to a new ranking of influential open source personalities.

The fine folk over at Torrent Freak have their own hopes. However, they have created a wonderful prelude to the big event, far more interesting than any discussion of rented frocks, baubles and faces, by calculating which of the nominated movies has been torrented the most.